Professional Experience
I'm a freelance content creator with a passion for travel, history, culture and the places where those topics intersect. My work has been published in GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, Fodor’s Travel and Ebony Magazine, among others. I'm an adjunct journalism professor at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the New School, as well as a Travel Demand Editor at Lonely Planet.
Expertise
Copywriter
3 Years
Editor
7 Years
Writer
13 Years
Specialty
Travel
5 Years
Arts & Humanities
10 Years
Education
5 Years
Industries
Book publishing - all
10 Years
Pr/marketing - all
6 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
10 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
15 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Conde Nast Traveler (1-2), Fodors Travel (3-5), Ebony Magzine (3-5), GQ (1-2), Time Out (1-2), Parlour Magazine (3-5), JSTOR Daily (6-10), TripSavvy (1-2), AARP (6-10), Broadly (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
San Francisco State University (6-10), UC Berkeley (1-2), Duke University (3-5), WeTransfer (1-2)
Other Work History
Consultant & Content Creator at Literary Lynn, LLC
Travel Demand Editor, Lonely Planet
Adjunct Journalism Professor, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and the New School
Associate Editor at the Stranger's Guide Magazine
Adjunct Writing Instructor, Medgar Evers College, Shaw University & Duke University
Associate Agent at Larsen Pomada Literary Agents
Freelance fiction & nonfiction editor
Computer Skills
MS Office Suite, Raisers Edge, Photoshop, InDesign, Access, Publisher, Act!, FileMaker, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, crowd funding platforms Constant Contact/Vertical Response and Wordpress/Drupal.
Equipment
laptop, audio recorder.
Associations
ASJA, MLA, IFWTWA, AWP, NABJ.
